You can learn a lot about a person from their trash.
\nOr so the saying goes.\u00a0I prefer watching how a person reacts
\nwhen spotting a horse. Or lake. How they tip. If they\u2019re okay
\nwith their toast as wheat not rye.\u00a0When they\u2019re seated in a booth
\nat a Denny\u2019s & not expecting the world\u00a0to come right to them
\nlike an astronaut blanket or a five-year plan. That they too
\nwould like to melt all the guns. Feed them expired meat
\n& watch them rot like November pumpkins. Give the guns
\na sailor\u2019s burial but substitute the sea for a hole\u00a0somewhere
\ndeep in the Pine Barrens. How they don\u2019t carry a knife
\nthat people can see but never have anything to cut.
\nHow they don\u2019t forward the message to eight different people
\nin order not to have bad luck in the New Year. That they don\u2019t
\nbelieve in the New Year but rather cannot get over the fact
\nthere exists a photograph of a black hole. How they\u2019ve tried
\nto take that photo but end up keeping a headache journal
\nfor the dogwoods. How they\u2019ve named bees. Love lava lamps.
\nHow after smashing the receiver they always clean up the mess.<\/p>\n
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You can learn a lot about a person from their trash. Or so the saying goes.\u00a0I prefer watching how a person reacts when spotting a horse. Or lake. How they tip. If they\u2019re okay with their toast as wheat not rye.\u00a0When they\u2019re seated in a booth at a Denny\u2019s & not expecting the world\u00a0to come […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2247,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[69],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-4qq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17014"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17109,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17014\/revisions\/17109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}